As we mentioned in a previous article, Red Hat advocate Greg DeKoenigsberg claimed that due to the much larger amount of code it's contributed, Red Hat is a better open source citizen than Canonical, adding, "Canonical is a marketing organization masquerading as an engineering organization." A Computerworld blog retorts that that's no insult; and that marketing Linux could be just as important to the cause as contributing code. Updated

Instead of contributing to either MeeGo or Gnome-Shell, they have decided it best to maintain as much status quo as possible moving forward. They are trying to separate themselves from the rest of the community similarly to how Novell has in the past (slab and choosing mono apps over everything else.) It didn't work then, and I hope Canonicals attempts are met with just as little momentum.